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I bet it’s really satisfying to solve right up until it isn’t.
“It is not hands that summon us, it is desire.”
If you have no wish to summon the cenobites, it might be no more dangerous than a Rubik’s cube, but there’s probably some horrible catch where even if you’re 99.99999% sure you want nothing to do with ‘em they can probably still pull out some hellish unfathomably small print legalese on you.
You’re reminding me I need to rewatch Hellraiser. Such a great movie.
The first few were good and I rewatched the first two relatively recently. They dropped off pretty hard starting with 3 though yeah? I haven’t watched the reboot but really should do so, but I don’t know if I can stand to watch one without Doug Bradley.
the reboot really is that. the rules are totally different, so you have to come at it as a completely different experience.
it's neat if i'm being generous, but really can't compete with the original.
I remember while watching the reboot thinking, this would have been better as a sequel with new Cenobites, but the same lore. In a franchise that has so many sequels there is no reason to reboot. Changing the lore is not going to endear any old fans to the franchise and it is not going to pull in new fans.
i can only imagine they wanted to explore new ideas and angles and didn't want to retread. which is fine as far as it goes.
Yep. They were pretty great until someone decided to dig deep into "lore".